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...story demonstrated that what Rove cited as high points of the Bush Administration are mostly reactions to 9/11, exclusively or in part. How Rove can identify the Iraq war as a high point beggars belief. One of the few proactive accomplishments he considered successful was the multibillion-dollar tax break for his very rich friends. Some high point. It is clear that Rove is the main inflator of the bubble in which Bush continues to reside. Neil Russell, Hong Kong...
...story demonstrated that what Rove cited as high points of the Bush Administration are mostly reactions to 9/11, exclusively or in part. How Rove can identify the Iraq war as a high point beggars belief. One of the few proactive accomplishments he considered successful was the multibillion-dollar tax break for his very rich friends. Some high point. It is clear that Rove is the main inflator of the bubble in which Bush continues to reside. Neil Russell, HONG KONG...
...superpower on Burma's doorstep. While Western countries have been wondering how to promote democracy, China has been quietly changing the facts on the ground. More and more of Burma's economy is being linked north and east, with new roads, bridges and railways, and now plans for a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline extending from the Bay of Bengal across the Irrawaddy Valley to China's Yunnan Province and beyond. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese have already settled in Burma in recent years and more will likely follow...
...million at retail in the first 24 hours. Since then, gamers have logged almost a billion person-hours playing Halo 2 online. Because it's exclusive to the Xbox 360, Halo 3 is also Microsoft's weapon of choice in its struggle with Sony for supremacy in the multibillion-dollar game-console market. "We're not just dealing with a game here," says Shane Kim, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, which owns Bungie. "We're dealing with a great entertainment property, one that has the potential to be a cross-media property like a Harry Potter...
Enter the world of marketing. The power of name recognition helps explain the multibillion-dollar business of plastering brand names on everything from ballpoint pens to NASCAR racers as well as the thriving cottage industry of reviving brands that have fallen out of mainstream use, like Ovaltine chocolate malt and Westinghouse televisions. "We tend to believe, If I've heard of [a product] before, it's probably because it's popular, and popular things are good," says Dan Goldstein, an assistant professor of marketing at London Business School...